PERSIAN WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Description

The Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation is an Iranian conservationist organization which studies and protects the endangered asiatic cheetah. Iranian-American businessman Morad Tahbaz is a co-founder of group. In January 2018, Iranian authorities arrested Tahbaz along with eight other PWHF-affiliated individuals, including Niloufar Bayani. A group of environmentalists founded PWHF in 2008 to address concern over the dwindling number of asiatic cheetahs.[1] PWHF operated with the permission of the Iranian government and worked closely with Iran's Department of Environment.